Gertrude Golda Lowy

Gertrude "Golda" Lowy (2 November 1887 – 25 January 1982) was an English suffragette. She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. She was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal.

Family Lowy was born in Hampstead, Middlesex, the eldest daughter of an influential Jewish family of North London. Her parents were Ernest Daniel Lowy, son of Albert Löwy, and Henrietta Lowy . Her mother's siblings included the artists Solomon Joseph Solomon and Lily Delissa Joseph.

Activism

Lowy, her mother and three sisters became active in the women's suffrage movement. Lowy was a militant, became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1908 and joined the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage,

On 4 March 1912, Lowy participated in the "Great Militant Protest" which had been organised by Emmeline Pankhurst. She smashed the windows of Knightsbridge department stores. She was arrested, sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labour,

Lowy took photographs of fellow activists in the suffrage movement, such as Ada Wright. She ran the Photography stall at the WSPU's Summer Fair in 1913 His first wife Pauline "Nina" Ruth Davis had died in 1925. Salaman had been active in supporting the women's suffrage movement, for example the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) newspaper Common Cause reported in 1909 that he spoke in favour of votes for women at a meeting in Hertfordshire.

Lowy died in 1982, aged 94.